Re: glue code ?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

With interpreted languages, you can't call C functions directly or use C
types directly.  To get round this, some code must be written that wraps
the C interface in a form useable by the interpreted language.

Since this is a bit repetitive, Marius wrote some scripts to generate
guile glue code from .defs files.  These defs files (well modified
versions of them) are used to generate the gnome-perl bindings and my
gnome-python bindings.

James Henstridge.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, boirie wrote:

> Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> > boirie <boirie@col.bsf.alcatel.fr> writes:
> >
> > > I was wondering what .defs files are for...?
> >
> > They are used in a couple of language bindings to describe the API of
> > Gtk and Gnome in such a way that glue code can be automatically
> > generated from them.
> 
>  glue code...mmh...What the hell is that ??
> Do you know if there is any documentation about this topic (language
> bindings I mean...)
> 
> Feeling very curious this morning, thanks,
> 
>     gregor
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